Diminishing Returns

Sean Dyche's time at Everton had been and gone. The club had to make a change.

By Patric Ridge

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It is a move that came as a shock. But not because it had not been coming.

The timing might have been odd, a matter of hours prior to kick-off in Thursday’s FA Cup clash against Peterborough United, but Sean Dyche’s Everton tenure had long since trickled out.

He was fortunate not to have gone earlier. The limbo the club found themselves in arguably helped Dyche cling onto the job much longer than would have been ‘fair’ based on his results, especially this season.

While he deserves credit for keeping Everton afloat amid points deductions and off-field chaos over his first 18 months at the helm, the 2024-25 season is just evidence to what Dyche’s detractors always said: He is a limited manager, whose one approach is swiftly becoming a case of diminishing returns.